The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-01-16

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thirty-five hundred 81 -
failed to respond to The Floor WIPER.
the call to money yesterday. AS they
gathered in the vicinity of the great works,
Z they were grouped upon the streets out
VIDE, according TO departments, and then
an signal from the inside, marshaled
in Mne, the employees of one department
at o time, by Master of Ceremonies Robin
son, and admitted to the pay rooms. A
detail of seventy policemen, commando
by Inspector Lange, kept the great throng
of expectants in order. But their duties
had not been confined to that line alone.
There were three points of payment and
the police guarded bags full OF money as
was sent from the main office to the dis
tant pay desks.
s SUNDAY MORNING NEWS reporters who
visited the grounds found the throng or
sderIy, but inclined to be merry, made bold
20 ask one or two in the lines why they had
struck. Marshals in the service of the
firm who picketed each line, enjoined each
one to whom the reporter spoke to silence
4 Sh ]" he would say, holding his fingers
to his lips, 6 That mans a newspaper re-
porter"
$50 and ask her." put in one, as he
ROlHb6u W q lulOh-Stb, DrdWuy IOOhluS
in one part of the room.
'sDon't you do it" cautioned another,
ssThat's Kate Kennedy. She'd wipe tho
Goo1 with you as quick as she'd look at you
even with the bosses in the room. She
doesn't care even for them.
The reporter deemed wisdom the bette +
part of valor, and kept his distance. AS he
seemed to be prohibited from talking about
the strike in the factory, he thought he d
nsye the way for an interview outside with
one of the damsels. So, by way of introdu-
eng himself, he remarked to one, who was
g9Kup regardless
~ Out in your Sunday togs?' he asked.
" Z Oh no r she resdonded with an indig-
mint Art of the head, . These are our
working cIothes Y'ought to see US when
we're ready to go to church"
The first of the hands to receive theA pay
was Katy Ray, prettily dressed blonde
who wore gay feather in her jaunty bon
net. She had been working in the wrap
ping department.
ssAll the best class and prettiest of the
girls wor3ed in this department., said one
Of the girls that followed her to the desk,
When the reporter moved out into the
throng into the street, he ventured to en-
quire whence all the strike.
.sWould you like to know asked one
bright faced miss.
COT courss!"
s'Well go and find out
He addressed his enquiry to a triplet of
maidens whom he saw standing by them
selves.
al amt got no fader or moder' one ven
tured to say. 81 pay tree dollars week
board. Last week made $500. / can't
make enough To keep myself in clothes"
She had shawl over head, and a
expression of face.
AssAud now" she went on, ''dey want to
en- us down fifteen to seventeen cents
DAN That's why struck.
ssIeS all thss.lqan Browns fault, put in
/ a seco3d Of the triplet 'tHe's the man that s
at the bottom of the whole business"
she ought to have three bullets put in
4 him, and then be chucked out of the win
dow" exc med the third. The other two
said they were making Sc to IS per week,
and they didn't propose to have their pay
reduced
The men to whom the reporter spoke
. said in a general kind of way that they
were striking against reductions; but when
asked to particularize Just how tho reduc
tons affected them, declined or were I'M
able to explain. The reporter noticed
many handsomely dressed girls IS ne ell
bowed his way through the crowds on his
8 way out. Oae even wore a seal-skin sacque.
4 But the majority of them were poorly clad,
4 nnd not over neat either in their attire or
IN their conversation.
ssAh! here comes the man that put our
pictures in the paper" shouted one of the
Hast throng of women he had to pass.
"WeM hive ID hug him, shouted an
9otheE and then all broke out iuto derisive
Rlepghter. Theg spread their arms for him
rs be drew nearer
ssJust one kiss!Y "Ohl only enc, was
1.-THE chorus that greeted him. They wo uld
have carried out their threats if the police
'ba2 not wed him from the battery
BY five o'clock the last Of the payments